Planescape: Torment

The Good
The storyline in this game is absolutely wonderful. For such a long game, it keeps a nicely flowing story that is dark and interesting for the entire game.

The characters were fun and had great personalities. The best were Morty and Annah, in my opinion. Those two just make the game even more interesting. It is great to listen to their comments throughout the game.

The graphics are good, though nothing special. However, they fit the game perfectly.

The large number of NPCs in the game and the large number of playable characters were also really nice to see. It helps to break up a game of just combat after combat.

The Bad
Some of the quests were a pain because you have to keep running all over the place to complete them. I'm not a big fan of having to run from one end of the map to another, when the maps are very large, just to complete a quest.

Because the characters you get are so spread out in the game, by the time you get some of them, you don't always want to take them into your party because your current party is so built up.

The game seemed lacking in what it set out to do... The basic premise of the place you find yourself is that you are in a place that has gateways to infinite other dimensions and worlds. That's really a cool idea. However, the places you are allowed to go are almost all human locations and aren't very spectacular. For a game with that type of format, I would expect to have many possible gateways to go through that take me to worlds of wonder and worlds of danger. For a game like this where you can't really die (you're already dead), I would even enjoy seeing worlds where you can't survive no matter how powerful you are. There really was a lot more they could have done with the game in that regard.

The Bottom Line
If you like RPGs, this game is a MUST. If you like interesting stories in games, or you like dark and mysterious games, this is a MUST.

Although the game could be much more than it is, it still is a great game that does everything in it perfectly. For what is in the game, there really isn't much that could be improved upon. I have yet to see another game like this one... and probably never will.

It's just too bad they will never make a sequel. They would make tons of money on one, but since the AD&D universe of Planescape is not an active universe any longer, they won't make a sequel. :(